Biden-⁠Harris Administration Kicks Off Infrastructure Week by Highlighting Historic Results Spurred by President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda

 Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law alone, the Administration has already:

  • Launched improvements on over 165,000 miles of roads and launched over 9,400 bridge repair projects – making our roadways safer and reconnecting communities across the country;
  • Provided funding to deploy nearly 3,000 low-and zero-emission American-made transit buses and funded over 5,000 clean school buses in 600 communities across the country, prioritizing disadvantaged areas;
  • Delivered funding for over 450 port and waterway projects to strengthen supply chains, speed up the movement of goods, lower costs, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions;
  • Deployed investments in over 300 airport terminal projects to modernize and expand terminals—over 100 of which are under construction or complete;
  • Launched over 4,100 projects to help communities build resilience to threats such as the impacts of climate change and cyber-attacks;
  • Financed over 1,400 drinking water and wastewater projects across the country;
  • Deployed funding that will help replace up to 1.7 million toxic lead pipes;
  • Removed hazardous fuel material from nearly 15 million acres of land through the Infrastructure Law and other sources to protect communities from wildfires;
  • Funded nearly 500 projects for water recycling, storage, conservation, desalination, and other purposes to improve drought resilience across the West;
  • Provided funding to over 200 states, Tribes, and territories and launched over 60 projects to improve the resilience and reliability of America’s electric grid and deliver cheaper and cleaner electricity—representing the largest single investment in electric transmission and distribution infrastructure in the history of the United States;
  • Enabled over 23 million low-income households to access free or discounted high-speed internet service through the Affordable Connectivity Program;
  • Funded 12,000 miles of middle-mile high-speed internet infrastructure across 370 counties, promoting the security, resilience, and affordability of our nation’s regional networks;
  • Provided funding to more than 280 Tribal governments to connect over 65,000 Tribal households with high-speed internet;
  • Implemented new rules to expose internet junk fees, enabling 300 million Americans to shop for home and mobile internet plans that best meet their needs and budget;
  • Plugged nearly 8,000 orphaned oil and gas wells to address legacy pollution;
  • Allocated funding to 95 previously unfunded Superfund site projects, including the longstanding backlog of projects, to clean up contaminated sites and advance environmental justice; and
  • Provided funding to 180 programs that advance President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, which set a goal that 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal clean energy, climate, and other investments flow to disadvantaged communities.